by Megan Peterson | Sep 11, 2019 | Community Development
In July a team of four Strong Harvest volunteers from Vancouver, WA, traveled with founders Rick and Jeri to Nicaragua to spread the moringa love together with our Field Representative, Lesly, and his wife, María. The team trained a new group of Peer Educators, did a...
by Jeri | Jan 9, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
This is Mercedes. She lives with her husband, Renee, in the village of Cristo Rey, Nicaragua. A village that’s right across the dirt road from the city dump. Most of the adults in this place make their living as garbage pickers. Their houses are pieced together...
by Rick | Jan 23, 2015 | Community Development
It has been an amazing year for Strong Harvest ~ planting seeds of hope with every Peer Educator trained and every moringa tree planted. As Michael, one of our new Tanzanian Peer Educators, exclaimed, “We should have known about this 10 years ago! We are new people...
by Rick | Apr 15, 2014 | Community Development
Here’s how to make gorgeous, golden oil from moringa seeds: Step 1: Get your buddies together and start cracking and partially shelling your moringa seeds. Step 2: Leaving about half of the cracked shells in with the bare seed kernels, add seeds and...
by Jeri | Apr 2, 2014 | Nicaragua
Our trip to Nicaragua in March was filled with stories of change and hope. In each of the places we returned to for follow-up visits, we heard reports such as, “Since I’ve been eating moringa, I have enough energy to work.” “My children are healthier and their...
